We have had multiple folks ask if we have any received data telemetry tapes from ISEE-3 or the others in the series (ISEE-1 or ISEE-2). If anyone has any of these tapes…
Category: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project
NASA: ISEE-3 – An Old Friend Comes to Visit Earth
Video: Top-down view of the orbit of ISEE-3 (ICE) relative to the inner solar system. We see the orbit alternates with the spacecraft occasionally closer, then further from the Sun than Earth….
io9 Asks if ISEE-3 Can Be Returned to Service
Can This 1970s Spacecraft Explore Again?, io9 “Imagine the heartbroken wailing and the cries of denial. Insert the demands to find out just how much it would cost to rebuild the antennas…
Motherboard Takes a Look at ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Everyone But NASA Wants To Wake Up This Long-Dormant Spacecraft, Motherboard “Where organizations lose their interest–which is to say, funding–the crowd is there to step in. It’s true if there isn’t money…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project (IRP)
Our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engines and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission…
Excitement at Morehead State About ISEE-3
Space Science Center wants to bring spacecraft home after 31 years, The Trail Blazer “A car-sized spacecraft launched in 1978 to measure the solar wind, then repurposed to fly alongside two comets,…
ISEE-3 Transmitters Detected at Morehead State University
On 10 and 11 April 2014 our team at Morehead State University, with assistance from AMSAT-DL in Germany, was able to detect the carrier waves from both of ISEE-3’s transmitters. The screen…
Arecibo Detects ISEE
ISEE3, NAIC.edu “isee3 is the old ICE satellite that used AO as the down link back in the 80’s when it flew by the comet giacobini-zinner. It is now coming back toward…
Budget Pressure and Keeping Older Missions Alive
NASA missions bid for extensions, Nature “… like six other ongoing NASA missions studying the Moon, Mars and Saturn, Opportunity’s money is due to run out at the end of the US…
Allen Telescope Array Detects ISEE-3 Transmitters
ICE Spacecraft Signal Detection from the Allen Telescope Array, CosmicDiary “The ICE spacecraft (see below) has recently approached Earth close enough to be detectable at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). We have…
Listening for ISEE-3
ICE/ISEE-3 update: Amateurs detect its signal while professionals study contacting it, Planetary Society “Since the last time I reported on ICE/ISEE-3, there have been several developments. As a reminder, ISEE-3 was launched…
Reawakening An Old Friend
Space Thief Or Hero? One Man’s Quest To Reawaken An Old Friend, NPR “More than 30 years ago, Robert Farquhar stole a spacecraft. Now he’s trying to give it back. The green…